Dr Ben Walker (Ngāti Raukawa) is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). His research and teaching focus on the “people side” of management, and the ways that work affects (and is affected) by people’s beliefs, identities, and emotions. As a researcher, Ben’s primary interest is uncovering under-researched and overlooked psychological “quirks” that nevertheless have a big impact in workplaces and organisations. Examples from his past and ongoing research include performance-based identities (where people feel defined by how well they perform at work), lay theories of expertise (people’s often hidden assumptions about the meaning and nature of expertise), and the “dark side” of high performance (the ways that negative psychological factors such as anxiety, neuroticism, anger can facilitate workplace success). Ben uses a range of methods in his research, including interviews, experiments, surveys, and analyses of social media data, and is also passionate about "meta-research": reviewing or revealing trends and patterns in existing academic literatures. Ben’s research has been published in premier scholarly journals including Academy of Management Annals, Human Relations, and the Journal of International Business Studies. He has also contributed expert opinions to media outlets including The Conversation, Stuff, and the New Zealand Management magazine.